Bibliography: #BIB28521

web link	bahai-library.com/bibliography/BIB28521
reference type	Book
title	Robert Hayden in Verse : New Histories of African American Poetry and the Black Arts Era
author	Smith, Derik
authority control	Derik Smith
year	2018
publisher	University of Michigan Press
place published	Ann Arbor
issue	10.
ISBN	9780472073931 (hardcover acid-free paper) 9780472053933 (softcover acid-free paper)
abstract	This book sheds new light on the work of Robert Hayden (1913–80) in response to changing literary scholarship. While Hayden’s poetry often reflected aspects of the African American experience, he resisted attempts to categorize his poetry in racial terms. This fresh appreciation of Hayden’s work recontextualizes his achievements against the backdrop of the Black Arts Movement and traces his influence on contemporary African American poets. Placing Hayden at the heart of a history of African American poetry and culture spanning the Harlem Renaissance to the Hip-Hop era, the book explains why Hayden is now a canonical figure in 20th-century American literature. In deep readings that focus on Hayden’s religiousness, class consciousness, and historical vision, author Derik Smith inverts earlier scholarly accounts that figure Hayden as an outsider at odds with the militancy of the Black Arts movement. Robert Hayden in Verse offers detailed descriptions of the poet’s vigorous contributions to 1960s discourse about art, modernity, and blackness to show that the poet was, in fact, an earnest participant in Black Arts-era political and aesthetic debates.
notes	Bahá'í Faith: pp. 5, 9, 10-14, 17, 41-59, 65-66, 72, 75, 88-90, 104-111, 120-121, 144, 166-169, 175-177, 178, 179-180, 182-183, 185-190, 193, 252, 266n1, 267n3, 267n4, 271n17, 273n7, 276-277n1, 278n6, 278-279n8. LCCN 2018014316. 24 cm Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-298) and index.
language	English
keywords	HAYDEN, ROBERT; BIOGRAPHY; POETRY; AFRICAN AMERICANS
number of pages	xii, 316
call number	PS3515.A9363 Z93 2018 (LC- COLLINS)
accession number	20455417

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